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[–] 81 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    A tank pre-steam power. The force of steam was known about long before, but not utilized. Maybe because the metals weren't good enough yet to hold pressure? Imagine a steampunk Rome.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Hero (a dude) of Alexandria made some steam powered stuff around the dawn of the 1st millenia, and some roman dude put steam powered doors in his house, I think some temples had steam powered doors to.

    The emporer, I think Augustus the first one, had it presented to him to develop it further and he decided he didn't want to take jobs from the plebs or whatever, had to keep the beggars busy with something. So they dropped it.

    Hundreds of years prior, a couple of hundred maybe, Archimedes theorized a steam cannon.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The principle of steam power was known, but the ancient steam engines could only move stuff against little resistance once, while releasing all steam.
    It wasn't possible to build a steam engine that could build up pressure and do actual work, until metallurgy and precision machining were developed.

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  • [–] 63 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Wild, I watched my wife playing assassins creed last night while holding the baby, this machine was in the game

    Never seen it before and now twice in a row.

    Damn Baader-Meinhof

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe you should help her with the baby so she can game.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Probably never see it again either

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen this thing at least 500 times in my life, not sure how folks haven't seen it as many times. Did you all not spend hours pouring over Da Vinci's drawings as a kid? As a teen? As a young adult? Yesterday?

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  • [–] 60 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo da Vinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    No, because Da Vinci died in 1519, whereas Kojima was born in 1963.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, hence "a translator". You didn't think I meant from Renaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago

    Leonardo's was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn't he?

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Was genuinely fun to drive and use on Assassin's Creed.

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    [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    He would have loved battle bots.

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  • [+] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    That's how ship cannons worked too, at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate.... having more of them was the only way to have sustained firepower.

    But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. "And look, this shit has cannons... Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!". I guess it's what happens when you're so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.

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    [–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, he designed these things for Sforza because designing war machines pays money.

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    The machina magnifica!

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Stupid is what it is, there isn't enough room for ammo or to physically reload all those cannons. what a rube

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    No don't do this. You're giving gaijin ideas.

    It'll be the next tank on Warthunder, under the Italian tech tree.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If only we could have gotten Da Vinci and the Hussites together in order to build a wooden mech covered in cannons.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Imagine paying for a weapon design only to end up with two incomplete designs and one being a stupid flying thing that will never work and a bunch of naked people pictures that are at least finished, but kind of useless because doctors continued to just poison people anyway

    He is one of my favorite historical figures, but he must have been absolutely infuriating to deal with.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    "Sorry I couldn't work on your commission, I was busy trying to land a job with the Duke"

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I too have dozens of unfinished projects, so me and Leo are basically the same. /s

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    It's a panzer.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Dude definitely needed adderall

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Da Vinci definitely would have played Orkz.

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